Tom Barren lives in a perfect 2016—no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados—thanks to a world powered by dazzling technology. But perfection doesn’t equal happiness, and when he loses the woman he loves, Tom makes one disastrous choice with a time machine.
Suddenly, he’s stranded in a broken alternate reality that looks suspiciously like ours. Here, Tom has the family he never knew, a career he never wanted, and a chance at love he thought he lost forever. To stay means embracing the chaos. To return means giving it all up.
Elan Mastai’s dazzling debut blends humor, heart, and mind-bending invention into a novel about the alternate paths we take—and the messy, beautiful reality that might just be worth keeping.
